Patents by Inventor Kaining CHEN

Kaining CHEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11420889
    Abstract: The Invention discloses an ecological remediation method for controlling sulphur pollution in black and odorous sludge of rivers. Firstly, the sludge from pollution layer of the rivers will be dredged and stacked on the banksides with slope protection built along the outer edge of the sludge storage site; then innocent pretreatment will be conducted for the sludge. Specific steps comprise solarization and ploughing, and mixed ameliorant of certain proportion will be added for modification between first solarization and intermittent ploughing. Then, large emergent aquatic plants will be planted on the stacked sludge after pretreatment. The technical method provided by the Invention may control the release of acid-volatile sulfide in the contaminated sludge on one hand and reduce concentration of volatile organic sulfide in the waters on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY
    Inventors: Xiaozhi Gu, Kaining Chen
  • Patent number: 11230483
    Abstract: A method for systematically controlling rapid proliferation of cyanobacteria cells in lakes in spring is described. The method applies physical, biological and chemical methods in an integrated and synergistic manner and includes using flexible enclosures to close a control water area and using modified soil to adsorb and settle algal cells; coupling four technologies including algae control by fish, algae control by biological floating islands, algae inhibition by plants and algae control by microorganisms; and using H2O2 to kW algae and using 40% FeCl3+CaCO3 and 50% Ca(NO3)2 to treat sediment. The method establishes a complete system for physical, chemical and biological control of algae, forms joint control of exogenous contaminants, endogenous contaminants and cyanobacteria, integrates physical, biological and chemical methods and optimizes systematic methods that are used synergistically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaoli Shi, Kaining Chen, Min Zhang, Zhen Yang, Yang Yu
  • Publication number: 20210348211
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for defining the stages of development of a cyanobacterial bloom, wherein the development of a cyanobacterial bloom is divided into five stages: a cyanobacteria wintering period, a resuscitation period, a rapid growth period, an outbreak period and a cyanobacteria decline period; the wintering period is defined based on the concentration/content ratio of algocyan/chlorophyll a; the resuscitation period is defined based on the relative expression levels of the phycocyanin synthesis gene PC-IGS, the algal toxin synthesis gene mcyA and the gas vesicle synthesis gene gvpC in the surface sediment; the cyanobacteria rapid growth period is defined based on the relative expression level of the ftsZ gene; the cyanobacteria outbreak period is defined based on the wind speed; and the cyanobacteria decline period is defined based on the relative expression level of the nblA gene and the ratio of glucose to neutral polysaccharides in dissolved organic matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaoli SHI, Kaining CHEN, Yang YU, Zhen YANG, Min ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210114906
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for systematically controlling rapid proliferation of cyanobacteria cells in lakes in spring. The method applies physical, biological and chemical methods in an integrated and synergistic manner and includes using flexible enclosures to close a control water area and using modified soil to adsorb and settle algal cells; coupling four technologies including algae control by fish, algae control by biological floating islands, algae inhibition by plants and algae control by microorganisms; and using H2O2 to kill algae and using 40% FeCl3+CaCO3 and 50% Ca(NO3)2 to treat sediment. The method of the present invention has established a complete system for physical, chemical and biological control of algae, forms joint control of exogenous contaminants, endogenous contaminants and cyanobacteria, integrates physical, biological and chemical methods and optimizes systematic methods that are used synergistically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaoli SHI, Kaining CHEN, Min ZHANG, Zhen YANG, Yang YU
  • Patent number: 10494278
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for harmless treatment of cyanophytes and suspended solids accumulated in lakeside wetlands, comprising the following steps: first, adding a flocculant to a water body to be treated, so as to allow the flocculation of cyanophytes to accumulate in the surface layer of the water body, and settling the formed cyanophycean floc to the surface layer of sediments; second, adding a floc stabilizer to perform accumulation and compaction of the cyanophycean floc and stabilized treatment of the floc in the surface layer; finally, conducting further reoxygenation treatment on the bottom water body. The method of the invention can realize efficient and ecologically safe flocculation of accumulated cyanophytes at low cost and control odor compounds such as sulfides decomposed from flocculated cyanophytes, so as to provide a new method for harmless treatment of excess cyanophycean accumulation in eutrophic lakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaozhi Gu, Cheng Liu, Kaining Chen, Wei Huang
  • Publication number: 20190194044
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for harmless treatment of cyanophytes and suspended solids accumulated in lakeside wetlands, comprising the following steps: first, adding a flocculant to a water body to be treated, so as to allow the flocculation of cyanophytes to accumulate in the surface layer of the water body, and settling the formed cyanophycean floc to the surface layer of sediments; second, adding a floc stabilizer to perform accumulation and compaction of the cyanophycean floc and stabilized treatment of the floc in the surface layer; finally, conducting further reoxygenation treatment on the bottom water body. The method of the invention can realize efficient and ecologically safe flocculation of accumulated cyanophytes at low cost and control odor compounds such as sulfides decomposed from flocculated cyanophytes, so as to provide a new method for harmless treatment of excess cyanophycean accumulation in eutrophic lakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY. CHINES E ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaozhi GU, Cheng LIU, Kaining CHEN, Wei HUANG
  • Publication number: 20180002209
    Abstract: The Invention discloses an ecological remediation method for controlling sulphur pollution in black and odorous sludge of rivers. Firstly, the sludge from pollution layer of the rivers will be dredged and stacked on the banksides with slope protection built along the outer edge of the sludge storage site; then innocent pretreatment will be conducted for the sludge. Specific steps comprise solarization and ploughing, and mixed ameliorant of certain proportion will be added for modification between first solarization and intermittent ploughing. Then, large emergent aquatic plants will be planted on the stacked sludge after pretreatment. The technical method provided by the Invention may control the release of acid-volatile sulfide in the contaminated sludge on one hand and reduce concentration of volatile organic sulfide in the waters on the other hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaozhi GU, Kaining CHEN
  • Patent number: 9664601
    Abstract: Method for determining volatile thio-ether compounds in offensive odorous sediment including: pre-treating a sediment sample, extracting volatile thio-ether compounds, separating and purifying the extraction supernatant in a solid phase extraction column, eluting with ethyl acetate, and finally collecting the eluent, which is then concentrated and used for determination by gas chromatography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xiaozhi Gu, Kaining Chen, Shuyun Sun, Miao Liu, Jia Kang, Yadong Wang
  • Publication number: 20170146438
    Abstract: Method for determining volatile thio-ether compounds in offensive odorous sediment including: pre-treating a sediment sample, extracting volatile thio-ether compounds, separating and purifying the extraction supernatant in a solid phase extraction column, eluting with ethyl acetate, and finally collecting the eluent, which is then concentrated and used for determination by gas chromatography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Xiaozhi GU, Kaining CHEN, Shuyun SUN, Miao LIU, Jia KANG, Yadong WANG